The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-26
MILAN EXCHANGE
OVER THE STATE.

! cen discontinued.
tnur members Ut the Lebanon bar
have died within Il year.
John W. White, hoy, was shot
aud killed in Knoxville Ly an TN.
knnwn person.
The school.house at Fowke. Sta.
iipu, near Dyershurg, was recently
destroyed Ivy fire.
Bud Harper WAS killed ut Moore
i'urg, Knox county, Ivy Tip Harper,
who is under arrest.
A twistof tobacco weighing eleven
pounds and FIVE ounces WAS on exhibit
ton in IL Hartsville store last week.
Land proSpeclors from the north
and west are investigating tho pros
pects in many Middle Tennessee
towns.
Rev. Thos. j. Lamar, for thirty five
years professor of ancient languages
in MaryviIe College, died Monday
morning, aged II.
The Baltimore u Ohio Railroad
company have secured the express
franchise on the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia d Georgia railroad.
A young negro hoy. porter in a
GAINESVILLE store, has just completed
u miniature locomotive, which is said
lie a marvel )us piece of mechanism.
VIM. Hardy, IL mulatto, who MUIR
dered white man at Scott d Sum-
mers' sawmill last. fall, was taken
from the Troy Jail and hanged by a
mob.
The Hurricane Springs Hotel and
cottages, owned by Ike Miller, burned
last week. Loss from twenty-five to
thirty thousand dollars. Insurance
fifteen thousand dollars.
The Savannah Courier tells of a
horse, which had become lame in one
fOJt for want Of u shoe, gong to II
blacksmith shop, poking his hend in
the door, getting shod by the smith
and then returning home. he had
horse sense, certain.
Jackson Wing: The supreme court
room, when the work Of repairing is
completed, will he one of the hand
soonest in the city. New chairs for
the judges and other furniture have
been ordered. The Legislature appro-
priated 81 200 for the repairs.
Franklin County New: Two men
from Pennsylvania have purchased
mountain lands in this comfy and will
begin moving the timber ere long.
they are men of fine business qualii'
cations and know "a good thing when
they see it. So they will convert the
surplus timber into things Of Useful.
ness and convenience.
Crockett County Sentinel Tom
Smotners' little girls were out in the
Geld Tuesday and concluded to burn
some grass. Little Jessie's dress
caught fire, and shr was burned 81
badly that she died in about foul
hours. Her sister Bette tried To put
out the fire, hut could not do 50, anC
was burned badly in the effort, and had
it not been for timely neighbor, she
too, would have suffered the same fate
Mr.. SmOthers and lady were absen
for only a short time when the acct
dent occurred.
Troy News Banner: The Outpu
of lumber from a single giant of tn
forest on Reelfoot Lake. Messrs
Hiram and Levi Rains, brothers. VIII
own the band saw mill in the vicinity
q Reelfoot Lake, report saving thre
~ of large poplar which gre'
near the mill, which aggregated 10,
300 feet, leaving one cut which wa
not used, but which would make
nice OF of merchsntabIe lumber
The first. or butt cut, twelve feet Ions
scaled 200 feet, the second, si1tee
feet long, scaled $500 feet. Out
the above we cut g, ASP feet, classe
as first, second and common, all cul
thrown out. The third cut scaled 2